- Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is a
digital library project ofTufts University that assembles digital collections ofhumanities resources. It is hosted by the Department ofClassics . It suffers, unfortunately, from very frequent computer hardware problems, and because of this its resources are often unavailable. The project is mirrored by theMax Planck Society inBerlin [ [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Berlin Mirror] ] and theUniversity of Chicago . [ [http://perseus.uchicago.edu/ Chicago Mirror] ]The project was founded in
1987 to collect and present materials for study ofancient Greece . It has published twoCD-ROM s and established the Perseus Digital Library on theWorld Wide Web in1995 . The project has expanded its original scope; current collections cover Greco-Roman classics, theEnglish Renaissance , the papers ofEdwin Bolles , and the history of Tufts University.The editor-in-chief of the project is
Gregory Crane , the Tufts Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship. He has been editor-in-chief since the founding of the Perseus Project.Ancient Greek works in Perseus are stored as
beta code , though they can be reformatted for display into a variety of transcription systems [ [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/fonthelp.html Greek Font Display Help] ] .Copyright status
The Perseus Project supports open-source [See Open Source section in the [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/perseus4.0.ann.full.html Perseus 4.0 Announcement] ] , and has published code on SourceForge. [ [http://sourceforge.net/projects/perseus-artarch/ SourceForge.net: Perseus' Art and Archaeology Module] ] All texts and materials believed to be in the public domain are available for free download in xml format on Perseus 4.0 [See Perseus 4.0 [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper] ; for specific example, see download and license information for Murray translation of the
Odyssey [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136] .] . Perseus is an active member of theOpen Content Alliance [ [http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html List of OCA contributors] ] and supporter of theInternet Archive .Certain content, such as images and some texts, are restricted due to permissions agreements with the rights holders.
See also
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List of digital library projects
*Stoa Consortium
*Digital Classicist
*Thesaurus Linguae Graecae References
Literature
* "Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times" by Thomas R. Martin,
Yale University Press , 1996. ISBN 0-300-06956-1. A text written by Prof Martin to accompany the Perseus Project online resources.External links
* [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/# The Perseus Project]
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